Men read the Global Times newspaper that features a front page article about U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Asia tour at a street display wall in Beijing, China, August 1, 2022. The front page headline reads: “Pelosi visits Asia in the smell of gunpowder”. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A citizen walks by popsicle-shaped installations outside a shopping mall amid a heat wave on August 2, 2022 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Lian Guoqing/VCG via Getty Images)





A visitor looks at ammonite fossils at Beijing Museum of Natural History on August 2, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Tian Yuhao/China News Service via Getty Images)





People stand in front of a screen showing a CCTV news broadcast, featuring a map of locations around Taiwan where Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will conduct military exercises and training activities including live-fire drills, at a shopping center in Beijing, China on August 3, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Participants comepete during stage 8 of the 21st Tour of Qinghai Lake 2022 cycling race in northwest China's Qinghai Province on August 3, 2022. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Pro-China supporters hold U.S. flag and a picture of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a protest outside the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong, Wednesday, August 3, 2022. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China, which quickly announced that it would conduct military maneuvers in retaliation for her presence. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A woman and a child with their luggage stand watch as masked residents line up to get their routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Wednesday, August 3, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on August 4, 2022 shows solar panels built over a sewage treatment plant, as the plant uses photovoltaic power to partly replace coal power, in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A woman uses her mobile phone as she walks in front of a large screen showing a news broadcast about China's military exercises encircling Taiwan, in Beijing on August 4, 2022. China's largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan kicked off August 4, in a show of force straddling vital international shipping lanes after a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





Tourists look on as a Chinese military helicopter flies past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest point from Taiwan, in Fujian province on August 4, 2022, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island. China is due on August 4 to kick off its largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan, in a show of force straddling vital international shipping lanes following a visit to the self-ruled island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a projectile is launched at an unspecified location in China during long-range live-fire drills by the rocket force of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army targeting maritime areas east of Taiwan, Thursday, August 4, 2022. China conducted “precision missile strikes” Thursday in waters off Taiwan's coasts as part of military exercises that have raised tensions in the region to their highest level in decades following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Wang Yi/Xinhua via AP Photo)





In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, air force and naval aviation corps of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) fly planes at an unspecified location in China, Thursday, August 4, 2022. (Photo by Fu Gan/Xinhua via AP Photo)





In this image made from video and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the air force and naval aviation corps of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conducts aerial refueling at an unspecified location in China, Thursday, August 4, 2022. (Photo by Xinhua via AP Photo)





Tourists pose for photos on the waterfront at the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, August 5, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Children pose for photos at the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, August 5, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Tourists pose for photos on the waterfront at the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, August 5, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A boy holds binoculars at the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, one of mainland China's closest points to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan island, Fujian province, China on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A dog wearing a hat, a pair of sunglass and a lei standing in a fountain of water on August 5, 2022 in Hong Kong, China. The Hong Kong SongKran Festival will be held in a shopping centre from August 5 to 9. (Photo by Vernon Yuen/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman sorts out supplies near a poster showing Chinese leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping in Pingtan in eastern China's Fujian province, Saturday, August 6, 2022. Taiwan said Saturday that China's military drills appear to simulate an attack on the self-ruled island, after multiple Chinese warships and aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei that infuriated Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)